Build it!: activities for setting up super structures

Materials and forces / Testing the strength of materials

Beams / Making strong shapes

Stable structures / Testing shapes on a test ramp

Equilibrium / Balancing forces to keep things up

Bridges / Bridging gaps with strength and stability

Domes / Exploring rounded shapes

Structures that collapse / Designing structures that fold flat

Pop-ups / Structures that seem to vanish!

Structures that protect / Designing packaging for fragile objects

Containers / Resisting forces from inside.